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Living the Beatles Legend by Kenneth Womack review – a long and winding roadie’s tale

He saved them from a car crash, snuck them drugs and inspired Let It Be… The detailed story of the Fab Four’s driver, bodyguard and confidant Mal Evans captures Beatlemania up close

The Guardian - UK

Geddy Lee says that Paul McCartney has tried to convince him and Alex Lifeson to tour again: “He was lecturing Al about how great it is... ‘You have to do it, man. You have to get back out there’”

It sounds like McCartney made a persuasive case but Lee says Lifeson might still need some more persuading before we can look forward to any form of Rush reunion tour

MusicRadar

Mal Evans was "Beatles’ first historian"

Kenneth Womack tells Salon about his new book, “Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans”

Salon

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10 cover versions that are way more popular than the originals (according to Spotify)

The Beatles, Bowie, Bob Dylan and Stevie Wonder have all seen covers of their songs become more popular than the original version

Louder

"George Harrison had set fire to an ashtray and was running around the studio with it above his head": the chaotic creation of The Beatles' wildest song

Rock’s most epic battle was always The Beatles versus the Rolling Stones, yet Helter Skelter was inspired by an imagined square-off with The Who

Louder

"He liked the look of the knobs": The extraordinary story of The Beatles' Abbey Road mixing desk that was rescued from a skip and is now worth over a million pounds

Here comes the seven-figure sum - that's what you might have to pay for the desk that was used to record Fab Four's final album, then given to a school that binned it…

MusicRadar

"He came and sat and drank with us. We all got plastered together": it turns out Paul McCartney has instructed Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson to get back out on tour

Beatle Sir Paul offered his boozy wisdom to Rush's Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee at the Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts

Louder

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Could Coldplay warm up McDonald Jones Stadium?

IMAGINE 30,000 people at McDonald Jones Stadium singing "look at the stars, look how they shine for you," or a sea of mobile phone torches swaying in unison to the melancholic Fix You. Could English pop-rock megastars Coldplay be the next international act headed for Turton Road? On Monday Chris…

Newcastle Herald

‘Mick Jagger was surprisingly hard-working’: the all-star life of synth whiz Wally Badarou

His reputation for futurist pop got him work with everyone from Grace Jones and Talking Heads to Foreigner – now the French keyboardist is reissuing a soundtrack for a yoga DVD that became a Balearic classic

The Guardian - UK

“Through the years I thought one day I’d do a rock record”: Dolly Parton on why she’s made an album with Paul McCartney, Rob Halford, Stevie Nicks and more

The country icon has put together an all-star line-up on her new album Rockstar

Louder

Unboxing day: seven clever home appliances for an easy festive season

Take the strain out of your celebrations and give yourself time to party with these genius labour-reducing appliances

The Guardian - UK

When Stanley Clarke met Paul McCartney: “Paul asked me to show him how to slap!”

Stanley Clarke made a key assist on Paul McCartney's early-80s albums Tug of War and Pipes of Peace

Guitar World

Dolly Parton review, Rockstar: It’s hard to begrudge the Queen of Country some Dollyoke fun

Following her induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Parton gathers the stars together for an A-list karaoke party

The Independent UK

“I don’t want the old blues to die – if they do, I’ll be dead, too”: John Lennon, Eric Clapton and Ronnie Wood all followed in his footsteps of Big Bill Broonzy, the blues pioneer with a guitar style that’s impossible to copy

William ‘Big Bill’ Bronzy picked up a guitar in Chicago around 1920, and became the first of the original blues masters to tour Europe. His powerful voice and unique country-blues guitar style would shape the future of the genre in the US and the UK

Guitar World

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Evening Standard

London's 23 wildest nights out EVER

Ancient Rome? Pah. London is where the wildest parties happen. And below we revisit 23 of the capital’s most outrageous ever

The Guardian - UK

Dolly Parton: Rockstar review – country legend’s first rock album is like endless karaoke

Parton’s own songs are great and her voice is still strong and characterful, but it often doesn’t suit these rock covers aided by stars from Paul McCartney to Lizzo

The Independent UK

Dolly Parton on family, fashion and rock stardom: ‘I have to be who I am, so I fought for that and I still do’

The country music legend tells Roisin O’Connor why she’s embraced her inner rocker in her late seventies to collaborate with rock greats from Joan Jett to Paul McCartney to Stevie Nicks on her new album, how her goddaughter Miley Cyrus insisted she dress in leather, too, and why she hit…

The Independent UK

The Beatles make UK chart history with number one after 54 years

The last Beatles song was released just eight days ago

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The Beatles make UK chart history with number one after 54-year gap

Now And Then is the group’s 18th chart-topper in the UK.

The Guardian - UK

The Beatles set record 54-year gap between No 1 singles as Now and Then tops UK chart

Paul McCartney says success of band’s ‘final’ song together has ‘blown my socks off’, as it becomes the fastest-selling vinyl single this century

The Independent UK

From Taylor Swift to Billie Eilish and Lana Del Rey: The full list of Grammy Awards 2024 nominations

Taylor Swift broke the record for being the most-nominated artist for the Song Of The Year category

Salon

Yoko Ono helped save Beatles' Holy Grail

A detailed account of how one woman refused to throw out road manager Mal Evans' invaluable records

The Guardian - UK

‘It will change the way we think about their story’: mythical archive of ‘first Beatles historian’ comes to light

Mal Evans neglected his family life to go on tour with the Beatles, amassing a priceless trove of ephemera and diary entries. Long after his untimely death, a new book has finally uncovered it

Salon

More Beatles music is "conceivable"

"With the world in the state it is, we need the Beatles to appear again"

Creative Bloq

The Beatles' new music video brings us into troubling territory

I'm emotional for all the wrong reasons.

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